I finished this painting a couple of weeks ago, and entered it the St Bernard Art Guild show in Chalmette last weekend where it won the award for Best Maritime Painting! I entered seven paintings in the show, and won a total of five awards including Best Lanscape, Best Abstract, and Honorable Mentions awards for Art Under Glass and for Art Not Under Glass categories.

This week, I'm judging the Jefferson Art Guild Annual Juried Show at Barnes and Nobles on Veterans Hwy in Metairie on Wednesday; chaperoning a field trip of Chalmette High School senior art students to the New Orleans Museum of Art on Thursday; attending a gallery seminar on Thursday night, and going to the East St Tammany Habitat for Humanity charity art auction at the Harbor Center in Slidell on Friday. Maybe I'll see some of you there!